Network Development Engineer — Global Backbone & Automation

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 136,000 - 184,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Data Services, Inc. is seeking a Network Development Engineer to join the Backbone Enterprise, and Regional Engineering (BERE) team.

You will partner with infrastructure, software, and systems teams to implement changes, scale networks, and sustain AWS backbone infrastructure across data centers and regions. You will diagnose large-scale events, work with automation to improve tooling, and contribute to design and deployment of next-generation networks, while maintaining standards and

Qualifications

• 1+ years of automation scripting using Python, Bash, Shell and/or Perl experience
• 4+ years experience in a network focused hands‑on technical role working with IP routing protocols/technologies and platforms in large scale data center and/or WAN network environments.
• 4+ years experience developing engineering, deployment, or operations mechanisms to support IP network and/or networking systems.
• 4+ years experience in a technical on‑call capacity, responding to customer impacting events, mitigating and root cause analysis of those events.

Responsibilities

• Create and implement changes on the network.
• Work closely with our automation teams in defining the tools that allow us to scale at higher volume.
• Lead network projects in the areas of network sustaining engineering, network deployment/implementation, network scaling, technology refresh, best practices application, and/or network optimization.
• Sustain Amazon Web Services’ next generation networks for significant AWS customers by providing critical network support to diagnose, mitigate impact, and resolve large-scale networking events.
• Operate and troubleshoot network routing, interconnectivity, platforms, performance, and configurations issues; including necessary low level application interaction, Unix systems, and new age networking software tools.
• Drive and support innovation from Top of Rack to the Network Border and everything in between.
• Partner with our broader Network/Infrastructure organization in the areas of network engineering, configurations standards, and tools.
• Work closely with our Network/Systems/Software Engineering teams to ensure fast, smooth roll-out of new designs and products, as well as assist with deployment and sustaining of networking software tools.
• Maintain standards across the networking toolset and ensure that we are fully compliant to those standards and policies.
• Deliver simple, sustainable and repeatable solutions and processes.
• Collaborate with highest tier escalation engineers/resolvers.
• Create and review documentation and process regarding network implementation/deployments, recurring issues, new standard operating procedures, knowledge transfer material, etc.

Skills

Automation scripting

IP routing

On-call experience

Networking systems

Tools

Python

Bash

Shell

Perl

Job description

Amazon Data Services, Inc. is seeking a Network Development Engineer to join the Backbone Enterprise, and Regional Engineering (BERE) team.

You will partner with infrastructure, software, and systems teams to implement changes, scale networks, and sustain AWS backbone infrastructure across data centers and regions. You will diagnose large-scale events, work with automation to improve tooling, and contribute to design and deployment of next-generation networks, while maintaining standards and